Advantages: Gentle imaginative and beautifully illustrated Disadvantages: Not a single one
...Author: Helen Ward
Illustrator: WayneAnderson
Publisher: Templar Publishing
Publish Date: January 2005
Genre: Children's Picture Book
Pages: 40
Age Suitability: 3 - 6
RRP: £5.99 Amazon Price: £4.79
***What is the book about?***
A young boy named George who like many, feels ignored and over-looked by everyone around him sees dragons wherever he goes (or does he?) and gradually he develops a following of the mischievous little creatures. Although George is the only one who can see these dragons, he eventually grows tired of having to clean up after them and take blame for the broken carnage they leave behind. After careful research George decides to build a wonderful flying machine that will lead them home.
***Who wrote it?***
Helen Ward is a trained illustrator having studied at Brighton School of Art under several well known children...
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Advantages: A fascinatingly different take on the super-hero genre Disadvantages: None to speak of
...their stuff – and a number of ordinary people from reporters to petty crooks. Each is well realised, some of the best characters I’ve ever come across in comics. Buseik examines both what it might feel like to be a hero and what it might feel like to live alongside them.
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The art by Brent Anderson is quite lovely, with just the right amount of detail for me. There are times when there is no background to the panels as such, but this is only done when a background is not needed, rather than out of laziness, a situation far too prevalent in comics. Choice of colour schemes is spot on.
The covers of the issues, which are collected at the end of the volume, are stunning – Alex Ross is a very fashionable artist at the moment, which is fine, but I can’t get all that enthused over him. However, the covers are quite perfect – he tends...
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